Lead Developer Jobs in the North West

Lead Developer
England > North West

The median Lead Developer salary in the North West is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 135 231
Rank change year-on-year -105 +96 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 39 168 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.49% 1.71% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.81% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 33 162 68
10th Percentile £38,750 £52,084 £57,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -5.17% +20.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,688 £86,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £86,250 £93,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 7,226 9,301 6,978
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 94.61% 89.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,120 7,150 4,068
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,619 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the North West

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the North West.

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the North West

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the North West

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +11 38 £69,625 -4.95% 30
Merseyside +26 1 £72,500 +3.57% 4
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, Lead Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 22 (56.41%) .NET
2 17 (43.59%) AWS
3 15 (38.46%) C#
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
5 11 (28.21%) Azure
5 11 (28.21%) .NET Core
6 10 (25.64%) TypeScript
6 10 (25.64%) Docker
6 10 (25.64%) DevOps
6 10 (25.64%) React
6 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
7 9 (23.08%) Event-Driven
7 9 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (23.08%) TDD
7 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
8 8 (20.51%) CSS
8 8 (20.51%) E-Commerce
8 8 (20.51%) Software Engineering
8 8 (20.51%) Line Management
8 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
8 8 (20.51%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (17.95%) Requirements Workshops
9 7 (17.95%) Terraform
9 7 (17.95%) Shopify
9 7 (17.95%) Technical Architecture
9 7 (17.95%) Magento
9 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
9 7 (17.95%) CMS
10 6 (15.38%) HTML
10 6 (15.38%) SQL

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.95%) CMS
Business Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Magento
1 7 (17.95%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) AWS
2 11 (28.21%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) Serverless
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (7.69%) SaaS
5 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
1 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.56%) Automotive
2 1 (2.56%) Electronics
2 1 (2.56%) Finance
2 1 (2.56%) Games
2 1 (2.56%) Legal
2 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (2.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (56.41%) .NET
2 11 (28.21%) .NET Core
3 10 (25.64%) React
4 8 (20.51%) CSS
5 6 (15.38%) HTML
6 5 (12.82%) Node.js
7 4 (10.26%) .NET Framework
7 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET
7 4 (10.26%) Kafka
7 4 (10.26%) WinForms
7 4 (10.26%) WPF
8 3 (7.69%) Blazor
8 3 (7.69%) CSS3
8 3 (7.69%) HTML5
9 2 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (5.13%) REST
9 2 (5.13%) RESTful
10 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (2.56%) D3.js
10 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Clustering
2 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.56%) IoT
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Android
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Agile
2 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
2 10 (25.64%) DevOps
3 9 (23.08%) Event-Driven
3 9 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (23.08%) TDD
4 8 (20.51%) E-Commerce
4 8 (20.51%) Line Management
4 8 (20.51%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (20.51%) Software Engineering
5 7 (17.95%) Requirements Workshops
5 7 (17.95%) Technical Architecture
6 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
8 4 (10.26%) Coaching
8 4 (10.26%) Microservices
8 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (7.69%) Decision-Making
9 3 (7.69%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) C#
2 10 (25.64%) TypeScript
3 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.38%) Python
4 6 (15.38%) SQL
5 2 (5.13%) Java
5 2 (5.13%) PHP
6 1 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.56%) ReasonML
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.56%) IEC 62304
1 1 (2.56%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.56%) Intel